1 Introduction

The Lightweight Web Services Security Profile [MS-LWSSP] specifies restrictions on a set of Web services specifications and provides clarifications that promote interoperability when building secure Web services. [MS-LWSSP] and the profiled Web services specifications are used by both clients and servers to implement client authentication.

Sections 1.5, 1.8, 1.9, 2, and 3 of this specification are normative. All other sections and examples in this specification are informative.